And he's a great collaborator, the perfect chef de cuisine for this job," she reports. Ruston is very calm under pressure, he's a real clutch guy who understands the importance of getting the work done. "I always say I can teach someone to cook, but I can't teach them to hustle. Richardson has put together his own team at Mulberry, and Kittrell couldn't be happier with his work.
The two chefs consult on menu changes, and in September they launched a monthly Mulberry Supper Club where about a dozen diners can enjoy a three-course meal complete with wine pairings for an all-inclusive $55.
This summer, Kittrell turned over the day-to-day operation of Mulberry's dream kitchen to chef de cuisine Ruston Richardson, most recently of the Paggi House. Her food impressed Mulberry regulars and she began attracting new guests to the eatery with seasonal events such as a fall lamb roast, a crawfish boil in the spring, and a Bastille Day celebration in July. It's a chef's dream kitchen," says Kittrell.
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Really only room for two people, but there are windows you can see out of, that actually open. "The Mulberry kitchen is a great place to work, small and compact, but very efficient. Polombo hired her with only one caveat – that a few of Mulberry's signature dishes such as the Devils on Horseback and the FoieBerry Burger couldn't be changed – otherwise he entrusted menu development to her. Since the fall of 2012, she has been the executive chef at Mulberry, Michael Polombo's chic little wine bar on the ground floor of Downtown's 360 condo tower. She took off a couple of years to travel (always staging) and to have a baby, daughter Greta, now 4. Working with Rivero, Kittrell helped open the original El Chile Cafe y Cantina and went on to create an Italian eatery called Stortini on Manor Road, an homage to her maiden name and ethnic heritage.
She spent four years in the Jeffrey's kitchen, training under mentors David Garrido and Alma Alcocer-Thomas before moving on to Carlos Rivero's restaurant group. The well-traveled Canadian chef has staged in restaurants in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. At 42, she's juggling two executive chef jobs, marriage, and motherhood, and she appears to be having the time of her life.
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